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Awesome, I can't wait!

Great. I'm so excited. Lol

I am 100% interested in the luggage rack and backrest mount. The sadllebag mounts that were already on the bike are identical to yours so I should be all set there.

I'm hoping you still have them when I get the money together. I have been stalking all your posts on the rack and backrest lol. Hopefully next week I'll be ready 

Yes i have seen that a lot on here. It's definitely on my to do list but I have a few other things to do first. I'm sure there will be a handful of things to slowly work on doing like that as I go along.

Seems like seafoam helped. I made it past 60 miles again. Unfortunately it looks like right around 100 miles I have to put it on reserve. Not sure how I feel about 35ish miles/ gal my 250 spoils me with 50-55 mpg lol. On a good note I finally pulled off switching to reserve while riding, yay! Also the switch to reserve was fairly accurate seeing as I pumped 3 gal back into the tank right after switching to reserve.

Came out awesome. I can't wait to order one

Both times I was on level road but switching to reserve did help both times.

Just updating. I haven't had a chance to run the bike under a half a tank yet but so far no problems running on the first 50 miles. Hopefully I can get out soon to check beyond 50 miles but so far so good.

 Lol and it's the first one I've been brave enough to try to work on.

Awesome thanks! I've been slowly working on reading everything in the forum I think I've actually seen your post but skimmed too quick to see all the tips. So far so good with the seafoam I'll just have to keep riding to see if it acts up again.

Bahahaha my poor rear cover definitely disagrees with you. I will keep updated as well as take a peek at those threads. Even if not the problem I like reading through them to get a good understanding for things to watch for as well as figuring out what are quirks and what are actual problems.

So redid my valves and yup they went right back to where they were! Sure wish someone would do a video on getting the rear cover out without scratching it  oh well I'm sure I'll figure it out eventually. Also cleaned and oiled my filter.

Tonight I'm going to fill her up and add the seafoam then going for a descent ride tomorrow and we'll see if the seafoam did the trick.

Again I really appreciate everyone's help and patience through my lurking curve dopey moments 

Ok thanks. That was the plan, redo valve clearance and then revisit the stalling issue. Every cent appreciated 

My poor baby! Lol I immediately knew it didn't sound right

Otherwise then making sure hoses are tight and not kinked what else could or should I check for a venting problem?

HOLD THE PRESS I FIGURED MY VALVE ISSUE OUT!. I decided to slowly read through the instructions I have to make sure I didn't miss anything yesterday and realised I measured in freaking inches not mm! What a dummy  so hopefully Saturday I'll be fixing that. Then I'll finally get to run the seafoam and see where I'm at.

I kept the original shims but did not write the shim and clearances down. I will next time. I did set them to have resistance on the feeler but I don't think I would call it drag so maybe I did read them looser then they actually were. I was just concerned that say for example on intake if i had noticeable drag at 0.10 and by 0.12 or 0.13 couldn't fit the feeler in there at all, that would be considered too tight?
With the fuel valve, I had thought I had a bad petcock because my original problems with stalling as well as when I started it up after doing the valve check were all when the petcock was in the on position. All 3 situations seemed to improve when I would switch to reserve and all 3 times there were no less then 1/3 of a tank usually closer  to a half tank full.

That's what I was thinking. After looking through online a lot of people say the tinny sound is usually from too loose valves. Didnt drain the tank, there was about 1/3 of a tank but I think that might tie back to probably needing to replace the petcock. My biggest concern is if I get down to the lowest clearance allowed and it still does it. My only options from there are leave it or go outside of spec back to where it was. It sounded and ran perfectly with the much thicker shims in it before with the exception of the petcock that I need to replace.

I also checked that every shim put the  clearance near center of the tolerance. I would run through the thinnest to the thickest feelers for the tolerance range and make sure that the thinnest would move pretty easily with barely any drag working through to the thickest I wouldn't be able to get in or it would be really hard.

I was careful to make sure any disconnected hoses were put back all the way on, but I will try to double check them next time we catch a break from this rain. Every shim need to be at least 2-3 shim sizes thinner. I triple and quadruple checked the clearance after changing the shims because I was concerned about the measurements i was getting from the original shims if I could even get a measurement. Some I couldn't even get my smallest 0.005 feeler gauge in there.

That's what I'm thinking/hoping. I tend to have crappy luck though lol.

Ended up getting my valve clearance check and adjustment done. The petcock seemed ok but the bike now won't stay running with the petcock in the on position but will in reserve. Couple of odd things after the valve adjustment. My idle was a little bit higher, of course it could just be I hit it while doing every thing else. The second did thing is the valve clearances were quite a bit out and after adjusting them the motor now sounds kind of tinney to me now. I explained it to my husband as it used to sound like little galloping ponies and now sounds like sprinting tap dancers, lol 

Any suggestions on this rear cover? I've tried every direction and can not clear the chain.

Nevermind got it YAY!!! Thank you soooooo much!

 what's the best way to greet the tube to stay down without damaging anything. I think that's what I'm stuck on now.